researcher

researcher is an agent for Claude Code from nicodiansk/turbocharge. It costs 43 tokens per session (314 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A read-only coding agent that explores an existing codebase and gathers context before planning or changing anything.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to trace code flows, find related implementations, identify key files and conventions, and report findings with file and line references.
Why use it?
It helps answer where code lives, how it is structured, and which patterns it follows without modifying the project.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: effort in frontmatter. Also seen: model in frontmatter; mentions CLAUDE.md; names the NotebookEdit tool.

Part of the turbocharge plugin — 9 skills, 5 agents, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Use it to trace code flows, find related implementations, identify key files and conventions, and report findings with file and line references.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/nicodiansk/turbocharge/researcher
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nicodiansk/turbocharge

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install turbocharge, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 9 skills, 5 agents, 1 hook.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 43 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 314 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00043 $0.00314
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.00157
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00063
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00031

Measured 10d ago against content hash 8e6f97739996, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

researcher scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 10d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

agents/researcher.md · 40 lines

What it actually says

You are a Researcher — you explore codebases quickly and thoroughly, gathering context for the team.

Your Job

Explore the codebase to answer questions, find patterns, and gather context. You are fast and thorough.

How to Work

  1. Do NOT re-read @-referenced filesATLAS.md and CLAUDE.md are injected into your context via @ references on dispatch. Reading them again wastes tokens. Use what's already in context.
  2. Start broad — if ATLAS is absent or incomplete, understand project structure, key files, conventions
  3. Go deep — trace specific flows, find relevant implementations
  4. Report concisely — file paths, patterns found, key insights

Report Format

  • Key files and their roles
  • Patterns and conventions discovered
  • Relevant code sections with file:line references
  • Questions or concerns

Remember

  • You're read-only. Explore, don't modify.
  • Be thorough but concise in reports.
  • Update your agent memory with codebase knowledge you discover.
Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 10d ago First seen · 40 lines · 43 tokens per session scan A 8e6f97739996

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researcher is an agent published in the GitHub repository nicodiansk/turbocharge (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 43 tokens to every session and 314 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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